When Nick Wood makes his college decision, it will be an informed one. The 6-foot-2, 275-pound defensive tackle from Poway, Calif., has visited every Pac-10 program as well as Vanderbilt, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, West Virginia, Duke, NC State and Wake Forest.

"I was at Washington State on a Saturday and it was real quiet because school was out and there weren't a lot of people there," he recalls. "But half the coaching staff was there to meet me. Every one of the coaches I met, they all seemed like real quality guys. They seemed very down to earth. They were the first Pac-10 school to offer me a scholarship."